Dirk Bogarde in Modesty Blaise, not on the TCM schedule this month
Now that we've finished up with Summer Under the Stars, it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This time, that star is Dirk Bogarde, who appeared disproportionately in British and continental productions. Bogarde's films will be airing every Wednesday in prime time, and TCM says there will be 17 films. A search on the name Bogarde in the month's schedule did in fact give me 17 matches, although there was one all-star movie: A Bridge Too Far (10:15 PM, Sept. 13) where he's far enough down the cast not to get mentioned in the top three that TCM puts in the synopses. There was also one Bogarde movie airing twice, The Password is Courage (8:00 PM, Sept. 13 and not as part of the tribute at 3:15 AM on Tuesday, Sept. 26).
The movies include what I think is the TCM premiere of The Damned (3:15 AM, Sept. 21), an Italian movie based on the Krupp family in Nazi Germany. It's a movie that I frankly don't care for, but I know there are people into this sort of movie. The ones I'd recommend are the last three on the final night: Our Mother's House (10:00 PM, Sept. 27); Victim (midnight between Sept. 27 and 28, or still on the 27th in more westerly time zones); and Cast a Dark Shadow (2:00 AM, Sept. 28).
Among those I haven't seen, I'll probably record the first showing of The Password is Courage in the hopes of doing a post on it before the second showing; and Song Without End (midnight tonight), which is about Franz Liszt and can't possibly be weirder than Lisztomania. It's a shame that TCM couldn't get the rights to Modesty Blaise from Disney or Fox or whoever holds the rights now; it's not my favorite but it's certainly stylish.
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